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1979 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.
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January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootingsFebruary 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exileMarch 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos show Jupiter's ringsApril 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the ShahofficiallyJanuary 2 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actressJanuary 12 – Marián Hossa, Slovakian hockeyplayerJanuary 16 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)January 20 – Will Young, Englishsinger and actorJanuary
1. January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887) 2. January 5 – Charles Mingus, American bassist (b. 1922) 3. January 16 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932) 4. January 18 – Gaston Heuet, French long-distance runner (b. 1892) 5. January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908) 6. January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer (b. 1890)
February
1. February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (b. 1957) 2. February 7 – Josef Mengele, Nazism war criminal (b. 1911) 3. February 8 – Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet writer (b. 1896) 4. February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British engineer (b. 1900) 5. February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894) 6. February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
March
1. March 1 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader (b. 1903) 2. March 7 – Klaus Egge, Norwegian nationalist (b. 1906) 3. March 15 – Alexandre Parodi, French Politician (b. 1901) 4. March 30 – José María Velasco Ibarra, 24th President of Ecuador (b. 1893)
Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg for their work on electroweakinteractionsNobel Prize in Chemistry shared by Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig for their work with organoboranesNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield for their work on X-ray computed tomographyNobel Prize in Literature won by Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian action film directed by George Miller. Written by Miller and James McCausland from a story by Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, set "a few years from now". It tells a story of societal breakdown, murder, and revenge.
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- Warner Bros. Entertainment, George Miller
- Mad Max (1979)
AD 79 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus (or, less frequently, year 832 Ab urbe condita ).
In autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Jun 6, 2023 · Ah, the Coca-Cola “Mean Joe Greene” Commercial (1979) –a classic piece of advertising that’s still remembered and loved four decades later! This timeless commercial captured the hearts of millions and left an indelible mark on both TV advertising history and the Coca-Cola brand.
